The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has yielded a significant amount of uncertainty, but it may also have produced an unalloyed and unprecedented good: peace between Israel and Lebanon, its neighbor to the north. On Thursday, April 16, President Donald Trump announced that a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was to take effect […]
When it comes to foundational movie genres, we are told that the Western is dead and the romantic comedy is on life support, but the horror movie is alive, well, and, er, presumably bleeding. The modern entrants in this genre may not be good or even well-made, but enough of them still become hits to […]
Peacock’s new sci-fi series The Miniature Wife is an arch-feminist revision of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), with exactly that film’s gravitas and moral sophistication. But wait! Is it possible that this derivative goofball dramedy is actually fun? Through its charmless first episode, the answer is a hard “no.” The series stars Matthew Macfadyen […]
The next time you’re on an American freeway, take a serious look at the semitrucks all around you. Then do what’s necessary to get as far away from them as possible, because you’re at more risk from them now than ever before. From the 1970s through 2009, the number of serious truck-related accidents and fatalities […]
U.S. officials say negotiations with Denmark and Greenland are moving in a positive direction, even as tensions remain over Trump’s push for greater U.S. control of the strategic Arctic island.
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The House unanimously passed a short-term of the nation’s spy powers until in the wee hours Friday morning — pushing the deadline from April 20 to April 30 — after GOP rebels dramatically rejected a late-night, last-minute deal to extend for five years while adding some additional reforms and language intended to woo the holdouts....
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday.